Fires, Hurricanes, Floods, Carbon

The hills are on fire, wineries destroyed by flames. Rivers have run dry; the stain of reservoir bath-tub rings grows as waters drain, leaving stone the color of bleached bones. Hurricane after hurricanes break records for destruction from wind and flood surge. Summers bake the plains, the mountains, the bayous. Still the emissions rise and denial festers like a stinking fungus in the moist areas of vested interests. The new head of the EPA repeals the Clean Power Plan. With a flick of the pen he fuels the fires, poisons the air, sends tornadoes roaring across open fields toward the barn you just built with borrowed money and your dreams of an earth still green.